The Tories Should Beware of Marta Andreasen

22 Feb 2013 at 22:03

The news that UKIPMEP Marta Andreasen has defected to the Conservatives will no doubt provoke some celebrations at Tory HQ in Eastleigh tonight. She is the second one to do so, following in the footsteps of David Campbell-Bannerman, who re-ratted last year. She cites Nigel Farage’s dictatorial leadership style as the reason for her defection. I suspect the real reason is that she stood little chance of being reselected by UKIP.

To say Andreasen’s behaviour is flaky would be an understatement. My experience of her is that she is also not to be trusted, and the Tories should be very wary of her. Back in 2009 she and I had agreed that her book would be published by my new company, Biteback Publishing. We spent quite a bit of money editing the book but she went completely silent and I could never get hold of her. A month later I discovered quite by chance that the book had been published by someone else. I was livid. We were out of pocket and she had completely betrayed my trust. I have not spoken to her since. She refused to answer emails about meeting the cost of the editing. I threatened to go public about it and wrote to Lord Pearson, the then UKIP leader about it. Suddenly a cheque appeared – not from her, but from him.

Only last month she was calling Cameron’s position on Europe “naive”. This is what she told the Oxford Mail…

He made a great speech but he obviously doesn’t know Brussels. Mr Cameron fundamentally fails to understand the federal EU freight train. Whilst flexibility sounds great and was probably dreamed up by the Prime Minister whilst sitting in his slippers in Chequers, there is a different reality in Brussels. I can assure the Prime Minister that there is no such thing as flexibility when it comes to the EU’s objective: a deeper federal Europe where member states’ sovereignty becomes an anachronism. His speech therefore was naive. The train is on a one-way track.

The Tories should be very careful of this woman. I know from others that there have been other incidents which show her to be, shall we say, a full pesetas short of a euro.

I’ll leave the last word to Nigel Farage…

The Conservative Party deserve what’s coming to them. The woman is impossible.

The nagging question is why did Marta throw her lot in with the Tories, as together with the other two parties of the Lib, Lab, think that the E.U. is the best thing since sliced bread, and doe's she really think that Mr, Cameron will be around in 5years time, to oversee a referendum?
Mr, Cameron can well afford to promise the British people the moon, let alone another cast iron referendum pledge!

Thanks for all comments. I know nothing about her and surely we should all know by now, that none of the British politicians since Margate Thatcher, has served its citizens in any way??? I've been in and out of Singapore in the past two decades
and comparatively speaking, they and their children get the best deal from their astute politicians while we Brits and our children and grandchildren get CLOSE TO NOTHING and have to pay for the welfare of strangers, foreigners, refugees, legal and illegal immigrants - which is a noble idea but lt's see if Charity should begin at home for a nobler idea?
* A couple earning 38, 659 per annum are taxed 40 % and now will have their child benefits taken away.
* Students finish their university studies with a debt of 35,000 and have to find whatever part-time jobs if they're not the privileged few.
* The majority of well educated British with mediocre salaries can never afford to own their own homes
* Less privileged Children struggle in schools from all kinds of academic, resources, social and financial deprivations.
* There's virtually no incentives for A level students and post A level, very few scholarships or bursaries are available for university funding.
* Ownership of a home is a bygone word and no one politician even bothers to bring up the subject nowadays.
In contrast to us , poor Brits, living in the world's very great liberal democracy, if not the greatest, the foremost job of the government in Singapore is to protect their citizens.
* All Children get varying amounts of government funding called elusive throughout schooling.
* Rewards galore in terms of innumerable scholarships dazzle the A level students to pt their best performances for the nation's survival.
* The Housing Development Board (HDB) keeps improving their provision of flats with constant upgrading to executive and condominium standards for their young citizens to own and start good families because they are not socially deprived.
* A fair number of undergraduates receive scholarships from 400,000 to 1,000,000 dollars as well as opportunities to study at the best in the world, including Cambridge, MIT, Harvard etc.
* All citizens get governing allowances when the economy goes through a downturn, including subsizied housing, welfare etc
* Most A level students easily find jobs in the long interval between school and university
* The Polytechnics really upgrade their technical faculties and studies
* The whole country, led by the government, is constantly seeking to improve in all areas to ensure their citizens not only survive but have the best the world can offer.
Years ago, when I returned after a stint in Singapore, I was sure we needed to do similar things for Britain but the politicians I made it a point to meet and communicate with, were all full of their own idealistic or opportunistic versions of how to be a politician and it's " Oh, it might work for them, but we do things differently here."
But IMHO, we need all to ask, "" Great Britain, so what really are not serving us and when do we start making changes if our goal is to improve life for British citizens and our children today?" No, it's not rhetorical.